Terms of affection used by females and males to people of their own gender?

Firstly, I probably wouldn't mind so much calling my guy friends hun or something, if I didn't think they'd find it weird or anything. i did use to with one guy but then he was like huh hun?but anyway, I know a lot of girls who are friends call each other things like that and they feel normalbut guys just feel weird if another guy says whats up honey? or somethingis it just the male/female nature which does that?

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I think I just call everyone "dude" or "man", regardless of sex/gender, if I ever use any of those terms. (like, hey dude, what's up or hey man, what's up; back in the day I also used "good day Sir" regardless of sex, too)

No, I don't use "babe" nor "honey".

My girlfriend sometimes refer to me as "my heart" (yeah, it works better in Hungarian), but I think she only does that if I did something that made her dumbfounded and she's correcting me.

I love using affectionate names for my girlfriends (and sometimes guys) and the girls do the same. It's fun, light and honestly makes people smile :D Also for me I do it because I like being emotionally open and vulnerable.

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You're spot on, it's just the way male and female brains function. I would never feel comfortable with a guy friend calling me 'hun' or something similar, and I too would never sue those words for a guy friend.